Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...

The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...

This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

This article addresses health care innovations that can help improve population and meet future h...

Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...

This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.

This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operational...

This article traces the historical progression of the population health approach as part of healt...